Jena 6, Political Activism, Internet Activism and the Afrospear

Jena remains in the news. Through the great efforts of students, community activist, and yes black bloggers like DallasSouthBlog.comNow Ryan Grim of Politico not only covering the Jena issue, he is taking a look at the AfroSphere Bloggers...

Political Activism, Internet Activism and the Afrospear

Jena 6, Political Activism, Internet Activism and the Afrospear Jena remains in the news. Through the great efforts of students, community activist, and yes black bloggers like ...

‘Right to carry” permit for APS school board candidates?

I thought long and hard before posting this. There will be those who will say I made it up. I have been advised three times now, by different people, that because of what I am writing; I should pursue my right to carry a concealed weapon. Well into the third millennium, deep...

The privileged class

The greatest thing about being a member of the privileged class is that you can not be made to justify, defend, or even acknowledge, your membership. Diogenes’six http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/

APS Leaders and the Tribune spread the “truth”

According to the Tribune; the embattled APS Police Chief is also the subject of a previously unreported lawsuit alleging retaliation. It is not surprising. Gil Lovato is the chief of a private police force that is neither certified nor accredited by anyone other than the...

Robert Lucero owes his constituents an explanation

I’m sure they would like to know why he spent hundreds of thousands of their tax dollars renovating a board room for him self, while Susie Rayos Marmon ES is falling apart. Unfortunately he is not in the habit of responding constituent’s questions by telling the...

“Get Out of Jail Free” cards for APS Leaders

…paid for by taxpayers. During my interview with the editors from the Tribune, I mentioned that APS Leaders by and through their Modrall lawyers bought immunity from accountability for felony criminal misconduct. I was asked; don’t people do that all the time? Imagine...

APS’ Everitt stonewalls Rep. Heather Wilson

The APS ethics and accountability scandal has been brought to the attention of Representative Heather Wilson. She wrote a letter to APS Superintendent Elizabeth Everitt. The superintendent was asked to respond to my allegations. 45 days were allowed for the APS...

“Shite” rolls downhill for a reason.

It is moving away from power. Those at the bottom of the hill are held accountable. Because that works out well for the powerful. Were the situation reversed, power would move down to its intended purpose; retaining only enough power at each step to protect it from...

APS Police Chief Gil Lovato under investigation, finally.

Albiquerque Public Schools has its own police department. I do not know how rare that is - but in this case, our Albuquerque public schools watcher Chedd McQuigg has been watching the APS very closely since he became a member. He has been consistently critical of issues of...

Nature abhors a vacuum

If in public service there is a vacuum of accountability, who rushes in to fill it? Will it be filled by those who support and will submit to honest accountability? Having filled the vacuum, who will they then allow to join them; those who support and will submit to honest...

I guess we just won’t ask

With the removal of the public forum from school board meetings, the forum is no longer on the record; questions asked during the forum can now be ignored with impunity. Stakeholders can no longer expect answers to questions like: • Why did the board unnecessarily renovate...

APS school board candidate bounced from Board Meetings.

It had to do with a dispute over parliamentary authority. Board Policy B.14 Parliamentary Authority Roberts' Rules of Order, newly revised, will govern the Board of Education, except when state regulations prevail. …Actual procedures will be left to the discretion of the...

There's a school board election ahead

Yesterday, all of the school board candidates had an opportunity to meet with representatives of the unions of the people who tend to the needs of 98,000 of our sons and daughters every day in school. I promised them a seat at the table where decisions are made. The same...